Hey there,
this (probably 2 or 3 shot fic) is around season 3 but Donna and Harvey are now a couple and they're expecting their first child. They got together about 1.5 years ago, shortly after Harvey hired Mike. The fic takes place after Mike betrayed Harvey. It's been a few weeks since the friends drift apart but the story focuses more on Darvey.
it's probably kinda hard to read 'cause it was pretty hard to write this one but i've seen a lot movies and TV Shows and made a mix of the different scenes and own ideas.
I have no medical clue everything i've written is from movies/TV Shows or Google
Hope you enjoy!
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"So how was your last day for a while?" asks Harvey as he picks Donna up to go home.
"Great! I've got a lot of flowers and baby stuff"
"yeah, of course you did." He smiles "They're gonna miss you"
"I think so. I'm gonna miss them, too"
"Donna!" Mike calls behind them and they turn to face him.
"Hey" he says in a lower voice
"Hey" she replies
"I'm sorry, I missed your party, I had an outside date"
"It's okay, Rachel told me"
"Here" he says and gives her a present
"Mike, Rachel gave me one already"
"I know, this one is from me"
It's a picture he took of her and Harvey learning the sex at the "sex party"
"omg Mike, ths is beautiful. Thank you" she says and hugs him.
"You're welcome"
"Good night" he says looking at both of them but only Donna answers "Good night, Mike"
"Don't you think he suffered enough?"
"I don't care"
"Harvey..."
"Donna stop it, I'm in too good a mood, don't ruin this" she just nods and doesn't answer.
A few days later
"Good Morning" he greats as she enters the living room
"Morning" she . giving him a kiss.
"How are you feeling"
"okay, I think. Just a little headache. I think I'll go back to bed in a minute"
"do that" he says "you need anything?"
'No, just come back asap" he gives her a smile.
"I will. I don't think it's gonna be later than 5.30pm"
"that sounds great"
"maybe I have time to come by during midday"
"you dont have to"
"i know, but I want to" he smiles, gives her a kiss and turns towards the door.
"I love you"
"I love you, too" he replies and leaves.
Donna lies back down but can't fall asleep at first. Eventually she does it after all and sleeps for a few more hours.
Harvey comes to check on her again around 12pm, although she has assured him on the phone that everything is fine.
"See you later, honey" she says as he leaves and heads towards the bedroom again.
"Please just let me know how you're feeling later?" he asks here.
"sure"
She sleeps for another 3 hours 'cause her headache didn't get better at all actually a little worse.
When she wakes up, her pain is much worse and she has blurred vision. She rubs her eyes to g more clearly, but it doesn't help. She feels a tugging in her abdomen, not pain, but an uncomfortable pressure and she's a little nauseous. So she gets up to go to the bathroom to splash some water on her face. "something's wrong" she thinks.
She makes her way into the living room, where she left her cell phone to call Harvey. He has such an important appointment today, she doesn't want to disturb him, but she had to promise to call him even with the smallest little things.
Then she feels a sharp pain in her upper abdomen
"aaaahhh" she moans and supports herself on the wall and breaths heavily.
"Peanut, what was that?" she asks, rubbing her stomach. She waits a few seconds and carefully makes her way back to the couch, where she thinks her phone is. But in the middle of the way comes a second severe pain that makes her fall to the ground because she has nowhere to support herself.
"AAAAAAHHHHH" she screams and begins to breathe heavily. Her breath is hectic and short and she feels like she can't breath at all.
Luckily she manages to get to her knees first so that she can rest her arms on the floor and not bang her stomach on the floor.
"Peanut, what's wrong?" she asks her baby terrified and puts one arm on her stomach while still supporting herself with the other one on the floor.
"We need to call daddy."
She slowly crawls to the table, but realizes that there is no mobile phone.
"No!" she says desperately, while the pain in her upper abdomen continues and her breathing becomes shorter and heavier.
"We need to get help" she gasps in pain and tries to get up but fails. She looks around to see where her phone might be but her vision is blurry.
"what's going on?" she asks terrified. " it's too soon for labor" she whispers
In the meantime
Harvey is beginning to worry. Donna wanted to write to him and let him know if she's feeling better, which she hasn't done yet. He doesn't want to become one of those overprotective and annoying husbands who calls every five minutes to make sure everything's okay, but it's unusual for her not to call back.
He calls her but she doesn't answer. "Probably she's sleeping" he tries to calm himself.
In the time he calls her, Donna was sleeping and couldn't hear the pbone 'cause she was in the bedroom. She missed three calls from him.
"She'll call back" he thinks and puts his cell phone away.
The next time he calls she just woke up and was in the bathroom and couldn't hear the phone either. He really starts to worry now, it's unusual for her not to call back after so long.
He tries one more time...
Donna hears her cell phone ringing and notices that it's on the kitchen island.
"Goddamn it" she curses and drags herself along. However, she has nowhere to grab to hold of to pull herself up because the surface is smooth and the chairs are too unsteady. She looks at the clock on the wall, it says 3:34 pm
"No!" She says desperately "Harvey won't be here for at least another hour and a half or two" she thinks. "We need help asap" she says crying her hand still resting on her belly. The pain continues and it seems like it's getting worse with every second that passes.
She starts hitting the ground to get the neighbors to notice her but gives up right away because they are on vacation. She tried a few times to get her phone but she fails. Eventually she leans on the kitchen island and knows there is no other way but waiting. She's getting tired and can't drag herself along the condo anymore. She feels like she's gonna threw up and she does.
"Oh my god" she says terrified "peanut no"
She waited so long for her and Harvey to get together and they're so happy now, why can't everything just be okay for once?
"Hold on peanut, please! Aaaahhh" she curses as another sharp pain returns "Daddy'll be here soon…" she gasps "just hold on" of course she knows something's completely wrong. She wouldn't care about herself if it were only the headache thaat's killing her but the pain in her belly and her throwing up, it means something's wrong with their daughter and she can't handle that.
The pain is so severe that she finally lies down on her back. "Hold on peanut" she pleads "Hold on" she cries. "HELP! SOMEONE HELP ME, PLEASE!" She tries but she knows nobody will come and probably it's not loud enough anyways. Their apartment is at the top. The neighbors downstairs are gone and the next one downstairs is always drunk. he won't notice anything.
Then she hears her cell phone ringing again "Harvey" she whispers "help us"
"Daddy will come… for sure" she says stroking her belly. "Don't worry peanut. He'll be here soon" she whispers. Donna hopes that Harvey comes earlier since she's not answering her phone.
"Donna I'll give you 10 minutes to call back and make sure everything's okay, otherwise I'll leave everything here and come home." he says and hangs up
"Harvey" calls Mike and he turns to look at him.
"Everything okay?" he asks, it's the first time he asks him something in weeks.
He shakes his head "No, Donna isn't picking up" he says and Mike is surprised he got an answer at all.
"Rachel told me she has a headache"
"yes, but since I got there around 12, I haven't heard from her"
"Maybe she's just sleeping"
"she could at least pick up her phone"
"other room?" Mike tries to calm him down "don't worry, she and Rachel never answer their cell phones"
and Harvey smiles "that's right… but they call back… I gotta go" Harvey says "I have a meeting"
"McCanon Motors, right? He wants to take your mandate away because of the merger?"
"Yes" and he heads towards his office
"Harvey" he turns back to Mike
"Let me do this, I'll convice him. Go and look after Donna"
"what?"
"I don't mean for me, I- l want him to stay with you, don't get me wro-"
"I know" Harvey assures him "You'd do that for me? After everything that happened?"
"Of course I would. Whatever we said, I care about you, Harvey! You're the reason why I am here, I will never forget that. And you know I'd do everything it takes to regain your trust" Harvey nods "don't screw it up" he says with a half smile as he heads towards the elevator.
"I won't"
"Mike…" he turns to face him again "thank you"
... ... ...
It's 4:17pm when Harvey arrives. It took him longer than usual 'cause there was so much traffic. He tries another time while he was in the car but nothing. "Please be okay" he whispers to himself "both of you"
"Donna! I'm home. Where ar-" he freezes as he sees us wife lying on the floor moaning and crying"
"DONNA!" he rushes to her "omg Donna! Donna what's wrong?!" he asks terrified.
"Harvey" she cries "something's wrong with our b- baby… s- so much pain" she gasps. She's so tired, she can barely keep her eyes open.
Harvey is terrified at the sight of her. She is so sweaty, her breathing is barely there and she is fighting the fatigue. He sees that she throw up "Fuck" he thinks, he knows too, that throwing up and she laying on the floor in pain isn't something reassuringly.
"sshhh, it's alright, I'm here" he immediately calls an ambulance
"My- my wife... she- she's pregnant almost month 8"
"Sir calm down. what's wrong with her?" Asks a calm voice
"I don't know. I- I just found her on- on the floor, I don't know how long she's lying there. She- She's tired and barely responsive and she threw up. She says she's in a lot of pain"
"where are you?" and he tells the woman on the other side.
"Where's the pain?"
"Today morning she had headache. I-"
"Ask her"
"Donna, where's the pain exactly?" Harvey asks calmly
"My belly, upper stomach" she cries "a- and my- my head's ki- killing me… so blu- blurry" she is short of breath. He strokes her head.
"You hear that?" Harvey asks the woman
"Yes"
"Fuck" the woman thinks already having an idea what it could be but she rally hopes she's wrong.
"Listen, you need to try and keep her awake as long as you can."
"What's wrong with her?"
"I don't know" she's says knowing that Donna can probably hear her. "Just talk to her and try to keep her calm"
"Okay" he says in a low voice.
"the ambulance will be there soon"
"Okay" he says again. He picks Donna up so she's leaning on his arm and resting her head on his chest while his other hand is on hers on the belly.
"Donna, hey look at me"
"I knew you'd come" she says with a smile and he nods.
"Everything will be alright, I promise" he whispers at her "just hold on"
She sees his fear and that he blames himself for not coming earlier.
"It's not your fault" she tries but he doesn't answer on that and changes the topic.
"We don't have a name yet… What do you think about Geraldine" he asks and she laughs "oh god, NO" she laughs tiredly
"why? it was my grammy's grammy name"
"That's the point. I'd rather hope... the doctors made a mistake and it's a boy" she says
"But you bought too much girls stuff yet" he laughs
"It doesn't matter"
"Okay okay, I also have ideas for boys... uhm... Roger?" hey asks
"no"
"Roscoe?"
"what?" and he laughs
"John?"
"Do you want… our child to get a num- number at school?" she asks confused
"William?"
"You do know it's gonna be a girl, right?"
"right" he says giving her a smile
"I have the perfect name" he says in a serious voice but she knows he doesn't mean it
"yeah?"
"Bonnie"
"Oh my god. I think I'm gonna decide that on my own" she whispers smiling.
"Your hurting me" he adds
She notices she can't stay awake any longer and he does, too.
"Hey, you need to stay with me, okay?"
"Harvey" she starts "promise me not to blame yourself"
"Donna…"
"No… you're here even though you should be at work. You knew something's wrong a- and you came… l- I should've had my phone with me" she gasps "than nothing would've happened." She whines and he holds her tighter. He hates it to see her in pain not being able to help her.
"Donna stop, don't use your power"
" l- I couldn't get it anymore" she cries
"You couldn't have known"
"Neither could you…" she closes her eyes "Donna hey, look at me"
"I always wanted to be your wife"
"Donna please… don't" he pleads
"You're the love of my life Harvey... I love you" she whispers and he wipes her tears away but can't hold back his own.
"I love you, too... more than I ever loved anyone" he whispers and kisses her forehead.
"Take ca- care of... peanut" she says and closes her eyes. She knows something's completely wrong and that might never see her daughter. Her headache is killing her.
"donna no! hey" he shakes her, but no reaction.
"Donna please!" and than the paramedica are there. They push him away to get to Donna.
"Donna" he whispers
"what happened?" ask a woman
"I don't know, She wasn't answering her phone and... I came... I found her on the floor... she threw up and she was in so much pain. Her belly... our baby " he cries
"something else?"
"her head, she a slight headache in the mroning which obviously got a lot worse"
"Did she say anything else? "
"everything was blurry"
"fuck" she says "it could be the HELLP syndrome" she says to the other paramedic
"She needs to go to the hospital ASAP"
"What's wrong with her?" he asks
"sir, we can't explain anything right now, she needs a surgery asap, we lost too much time"
"I'm coming with you"
"no"
"the hell I am, she's my wife... it's my baby that she carries... please?" he pleads and they let him go with them.
... ... ...
An hour later Harvey's cell phone rings. it's Mike
"Mike" he says in a low voice
"Hey, is Donna okay?"
"Mike" he says 'cause he can't say anything else.
"Harvey what's wrong?"
"Donna"
"What's with her" but he dosen't answer.
"Harvey?!"
"I- I don't know. She- she was on the floor... I... the baby…"
"Where are you? Mount Sinal?"
"yes" he whispers
"I'll be right there" he says and hangs up.
"Harvey" Mike calls as soon as he sees him.
"Mike" he says getting up "thanks for coming" he says as he hugs him
"yeah of course. What happened?"
"I don't know. In the morning she said she has a slight headache, which is nothing to worry about. When I- when I was there at midday everything was fine" he takes a deep breath.
"She was lying on the floor in pain... something's wrong with our baby and her...her headache it was much worse... she threw up and I don't know why. Either because of the headache or because... "
"hey, hey... we don't know yet"
"something's really wrong Mike... otherwise she wouldn't be in emergency surgary" he says and Mike can't say nothing to make him feel better 'cause it's the truth.
"she said we lost too much time"
"who?|
"paramedic"
"I should've gone earlier... She needed me... and I"
"Hey, stop it... you couldn't have known. You just said yourself, headache is nothing unusual... and you went there during noon"
"she didn't pick up and she didn't call back"
"yeah, and you went at home then"
"it was too late… I was too late" he says friend
"Harvey, that's not true. Don't do that to yourself. You did everthing you could" he rubs his back. They sit there quietly for another two hours.
"Family of Donna Paulsen?"
"That's us. I'm her husband"
"My name is Dr. Robbins, I'm the attending Pediatric Surgeon. Mrs Paulsen has the HELLP-syndrome and unfortunately one of the worst and rarest variants...she"
"what the hell is that?" Harvey asks
"A kind of pregnancy poisoning... it's usually recognized early by the onset and persistence of symptoms and it's not that bad in most cases. Mrs Paulse's symptoms came on quickly, she couldn't do anything. It probably started with a headache which is nothing to worry about and get worse. It probably wouldn't have been that dangerous but she was unassisted for too long, which put her and the baby's life in great danger.
"Is she... are they?" Harvey doesn't dare to ask.
"The baby is still in intensive care, it was really close but she's stable for now and we do everything we can to keep it that way. You found them just in time… few minutes later and… it probably wouldn't have ended good for non of them"
"What about Donna?" Mike asks
"Mrs Paulsen had a cerebral hemorrhage after giving birth, she- "
"what?" Mike grabs Harvey who can't barely stand on his feet.
"As I said, the infection went untreated for too long, she should've gone to the hospital straight away after she got in pain. In rare cases the HELLP-syndrome leads to cerebral hemorrhage and unfortunately that is the case with Mrs Paulsen. She went into cardiac arrest during surgery…" and Harvey's legs give up.
"Harvey" Mike shouts and he and Dr. Robbins grab him. "It's okay, I'm fine... just go on"
"We managed to get her back. She's still in surgery but is not outa the woods. Dr. Shepherd is doing whatever's in her power. And just so you know she's one of the best neorol in the states."
"How are her chances?"
"We shouldn't talk ab- "
"Her chances?" Harvey shouts at her
"based on the other cases which are similar to hers... about 4%… but as I said Dr shepherd is one of the best, if not the best surgeon your wife could've"
Harvey gulps and nods
"I need to sit down" he whispers and MIke leads him to the chairs.
"Thank you Dr Robbins" Mike says and turns to Harvey.
Mike sits next to him not knowing what to say. He puts his hand on Harvey's shoulder just to let him know that he's not alone.
"4%" he whispers and Mike squeezes his shoulder.
"I'm gonna lose her" he starts crying "that's not how it was supposed to be"
"She'll make it… it's Donna" Mike says calmly "she has to"
They sit there for another long while till Dr. Shepherd comes.
"first of all she's alive" Dr shepherd says
"we managed to stop the cerebral hemorrhage but the cardiac arrest... It took us time to get her back."
"Means what?"
"We don't no whether her brain got a damage from it. We'd only be able to know when she'd awake.
"When will she wake up?" He asks and Dr shepherd takes a deep breath.
"I'm sorry Mr. Specter but your wife has gone into a coma"
"NO!" he says desperately.
Mike's first thought is to ask when she'll wake up but... he knows there's no answer. Maybe hours, maybe days, weeks, months, years... or never!
"Can we see her" Mike asks
"yes" she nods and leads them into Donna's room. She has an oxygen mask 'cause she's breathing by herself, which in itself is a good thing.
and they stay there for a long time. MIke contacts Rachel and informs her. He does the same with Donna's parents, who are already on her way.
... ... ...
"Mr Specter" Harvey lifts his head which was resting on Donna's mattress. it is DR Robbins.
"What is it?" hey asks
"I thought you might wanna see your daughter" she says "She's stable but iit'd be good to hear your voice, she's still-"
"why do you think that?" Harvey shoots at her
'Uh... I- what do you mean?"
"Why d'you think I'd wanna see her? "
"Harvey" says Mike who was sleeping on the chair next to the table "it's your daughter"
"she's the reason why Donna's lying here... without her she'd be completely fine" he says mad.
"Harvey!"Mike tries but he pushes him away.
"WHAT? I don't care about her! I care about her" he says pointing at Donna.
Next day
"Mr specter, your daughter's values are declining. Nothing's helping, you should try and talk to her. She knows your voice, I'm pretty sure you talked to her before. It could really help. It did in a lot of cases"
"I think you should leave"
"Goddamn it Harvey, that's enogh!" Mike shouts.
"Not here" says Dr. Robbins pointing at Donna and Mike drags him out of the room
"Who the hell do you think you are?!" Harvey asks mad.
"It's your daughter goddamn it"
"It's her fault" Harvey shouts back. It seems like he's not knowing what he's saying, he's still in shock and someone needs to bring him back to reality.
"You both wanted her, you were overjoyed. You haven't talked about anything else for the past few months! what the hell is going on with you?!"
"You saying it's my fault?"
"NO Harvey, it's nobody's fault! I'm just saying your daughter needs you and if something happens to her and you didn't do anything to avoid it you're gonna regret it for the rest of your life.
What are you going to tell Donna, huh?"
"It doesn't matter. She won't wake up anyway!" he says hurting "She has no chance" and he falls to the ground crying. MIke closes his eyes and takes a deep breath.
"You don't know that" he says in calm voice not and kneels in front of him
"Her chances were 4% and she made it… don't lose faith on her"
"Your right" he says "it's Donna" he whispers.
"Harvey, your daughter needs you. And no matter what Donna might say, you'll never forgive yourself if anything happens to her." Harvey nods
"take me to her" he says looking at Dr. Robbins who nods in agreement.
"Here you are little girl" She takes the baby out of the bed and hands it to Harvey.
"meet your daddy" Harvey hasitates but eventually takes her.
"Hey" he says looking at her little face
"welcome" he tries "I can't do this" he says looking at Mike and trying to hand her over to him.
"Of course you can. just look at her, she's so perfect" and he tries again
"I'm your daddy" he says at her and suddenly it feels so right to say those words. He waited so long for them "Yeah, I'm your daddy" he says and a smile builds up on his face.
"You look like your mother" he wheezes "so beautiful" he whispers and leans to kiss her. Tears rolling down his cheeks.
"I'm sorry I said I wouldn't want you and wouldn't care about you. That was bullshit. I would do everything for you, I need you to know that" he says taking her little hand. It's so small, he can't believe how something can be so perfect.
"She's so perfect, isn't she?" He looks at Mike who smlies "yeah, she is" he agrees giving his friend a claps on his shoulder. "Take your time, Harvey"
He talks a little longer to her and finally puts on her bed again. Her values really start to become better so he stays there for hours talking to her and caring her around the room.
"thank you, Mike" he says as Mike comes back to look after them.
"no thanks" he says with a smile
"We're you with Donna?" He asks
"Yes, I just saw her, no change"
… … …
"You goddamn idiot, why was she alone?" Donnas father yells at Harvey as they arrive.
"Jim I"
"You what?! She needed you and you left her alone!"
"Jim stop" his wife tries.
"Donna is in a coma instead of being a happy mother" he shouts "and it's his fault"
"He couldn't have known" she protects Harvey "Donna's not the first pregnant wife who had headache and stayed alone at home"
"It's your fault if my grandchild hat to grow up without her mother!"
Harvey doesn't say a word. It hurts him and it hurts him even more because he thinks the same. It is his fault. He promised Donna not to blame himself but he can't… if he would've gone earlier to look after her, she probably would be fine now.
"Don't listen at him Harvey, he's just afraid and needs to blame someone" says Mike.
"He's right" he says and heads outa the building. Mike knows that he needs to be alone right now so he doesn't follow.
/ / /
So this was part one, I hope you liked it. I'm really sorry what I did to Donna but I just had to… I saw something like that once and I wanted to write it down just with differences.
Next part will be a lighter and I'll include some flash backs to have more fluff hahah
I'd love to know what you thing about it and as always sorry for my mistakes, I'm still learning english
Have a nice time